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...whom he gave studio jobs. Though the team was at first sneered at as the only one "where the horses are better bred than the men," its intense, fearless little captain drove it to win the respect of its opponents and the hospitality of Pasadena's uppity Midwick Country Club. Meanwhile, headlong Darryl Zanuck became a two-goal player at the price of such injuries as a smashed nose and a broken hand...
...Midwick is pronounced Middick. And Middick is nice Pasadena's exclusive country club. Midwick does not think that Hollywood is nice. But last week at a polo match at Midwick between the Actors and the Producers for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Midwick and Hollywood met socially with a slight hiss of conversation. For a week before the game local society and sporting pages had been ballyhooing the event. The Producers team would consist of Walter Wanger, a hard-working non-scorer; Frank Borzage of long low-goal experience; Mike Curtiz, who took...
...other people. When the ponies pranced onto the field, there were only some 3,000 spectators in the grandstand or fanning themselves in the boxes. Reasons: The heat was 90° in the shade; the privilege of baking in one of the boxes cost $5.50; Midwick was aloof...
Husband Wanger, one of Midwick's few movie members, strove manfully to bring the social irreconcilables together. He had little luck. The only real fraternization went on in the party of tall, dark Mrs. Edwin Earl and her husband, whose father owned Los Angeles' defunct Express. Her group contained Lawyer Thomas Joyce, Comedian Robert Benchley, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Poloist Eric Pedley...
...some, Midwick's manners seemed to evidence more bravado than brains. Polo is a difficult game to support, and there are plenty of Hollywoodians who are waiting for the exclusive club to expire, anticipating a good buy. A few days before the Hollywood game a Pasadena real-estate operator approached one Midwick director, offered to buy the colonial clubhouse and grounds for a cemetery. Said an undertaker hopefully eying the golf course and polo fields: "The grass is already...